Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of routes reaching from Wilmington, N.C. to Cincinnati. Although Davis' airline is technically a "feeder" (i.e., a supplier for trunk-line routes), 47% of its passengers ride only Piedmont. President Davis runs his line so efficiently that he needed only 24% in airmail pay per $1 of gross revenue to break even last year, while other feeders require as much as 46? for Southwest, 66? for West Coast...
...majority of cases only sexually perverted men (to use the word carelessly) could have perpetrated such crudities. Imagination these drawings do not lack; but it is of a twisted nature and content that we presume no normally developed student could have concocted, even allowing for the merely stupid and gross person who customarily scribbles on toilet walls...
...some evidence last week that the economy is still growing. In the first quarter, it reported, the total output of goods and services was at an annual rate of $339.5 billion, up $11.7 billion from the full year 1951 and a new record. In the past, increases in the gross national product have been due in some measure to price rises, but this time, said Commerce, with prices stable, the jump resulted almost entirely from greater output and bigger incomes...
Anything over $4 a day gross profit on the washers will go toward paying off the $180 loan. If it is not paid off in two years, it will be written off. After that, the committee will get a flat 20 percent of the gross take...
...MILLION DOLLAR VALUE," cried one ad. Up for sale was 75% interest in a company with "$200,000.00 in losses sustained in past three years available for carryover . . ." i.e., for credit against future profits. Then the Journal noticed an ad for another company: "FEED MANUFACTURER . . . $3,000,000 yrly. gross. Excel. plant & buildings appraised at over $500,000. Long record of earnings . . . Full price less than...